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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) Flight.
(b) The dawn.
(c) The air.
(d) Daylight.

2. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(b) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(c) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(d) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.

3. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Personification.

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) The poet's spouse.
(c) Christ.
(d) A Victorian minister.

5. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Hawk.
(b) Osprey.
(c) Kite.
(d) Kestrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

2. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

3. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?

4. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

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